2025-09-02
There's a new player in the AI race, and it's a whole country. Switzerland has just released Apertus, its open-source national Large Language Model (LLM) that it hopes would be an alternative to models offered by companies like OpenAI. Apertus, Latin for the world "open," was developed by the Swiss Federal Technology Institute of Lausanne (EPFL), ETH Zurich and the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS), all of which are public institutions.
"Currently, Apertus is the leading public AI model: a model built by public institutions, for the public interest. It is our best proof yet that AI can be a form of public infrastructure like [...]
2025-10-24
The next big trend in AI providers appears to be "studio" environments on the web that allow users to spin up agents and AI applications within minutes. Case in point, today the well-funded [...]
2025-10-27
Watch out, DeepSeek and Qwen! There's a new king of open source large language models (LLMs), especially when it comes to something enterprises are increasingly valuing: agentic tool use — that [...]
2025-10-22
China is on track to dominate consumer artificial intelligence applications and robotics manufacturing within years, but the United States will maintain its substantial lead in enterprise AI adoption [...]
2025-10-02
IBM today announced the release of Granite 4.0, the newest generation of its homemade family of open source large language models (LLMs) designed to balance high performance with lower memory and cost [...]
2025-10-17
Cisco executives make the case that the distinction between product and model companies is disappearing, and that accessing the 55% of enterprise data growth that current AI ignores will separate winn [...]
2025-09-29
DeepSeek continues to push the frontier of generative AI...in this case, in terms of affordability.The company has unveiled its latest experimental large language model (LLM), DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp, that [...]
2025-10-28
In an industry where model size is often seen as a proxy for intelligence, IBM is charting a different course — one that values efficiency over enormity, and accessibility over abstraction.The 114-y [...]